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New Haven Register by Ed Stannard
The monk parakeets that choose utility poles as the real estate for their large nests will be evicted next week, but they won’t be executed.
United Illuminating Co. said Friday that it will remove 89 nests from its equipment starting Tuesday, which it has done about every six months since March 2006. Read on…
BY DENISE ROMANO - NYDailyNews.com
The birds are back in town.
The famed Brooklyn monk parrots are popping up all over the borough — for a whole flock of reasons. Read on…
Thanks to the media attention we received a lot of sightings of the macaws today. Haarlem and surrounding areas are really supporting us and that makes us feel a lot better.
With the help of the reports today we found the older youngster. It is all right and is taken care of by its parents. They have settled near Kenau park. Read on…
After he was set free at the bird sanctuary we have seen the young macaw for two days around the stadskweektuinen in Haarlem. Wednesday afternoon he was very frightened of man in animal ambulance suits. When they arrived the young macaw flew to another higher tree from where it was impossible to reach him with a net.
We have tried to follow the young macaw for as long as possible. It flew from tree to tree and gained more height along the way. Finally it reached the crown of one of the Poplar trees that surround the stadskweektuinen and the nearby public vegetable gardens. At nightfall the macaw flew out of sight and it was impossible to determine where it spend the night. If we did we could possibly have gotten it down with the help of the fire department.
Next day I went out on my bike in the neighbourhood and at noon the young macaw was heard again. He was flying around the stadskweektuinen and was calling out in search of his parents. Although the macaws are regular visitors of this garden they were not the last couple of days. That would have facilitated the reunion of the family a great deal. Read on…
This evening we received a message that one of the young macaws was attacked by a dog and picked up by the Animal Ambulance (Dutch RSPCA) After fledging yesterday morning the young faced a stormy night. The youngest bird probably fell out of a tree. The bird was brought in at the local bird sanctuary. Locally known as Vogel Rampen Fonds. Read on…
Not without pride, with a sigh of relieve and great joy City Parrots can announce that 2 young Scarlet Macaws have fledged. After 23 days in an egg and 3 months in the nest the two youngster fledged early Tuesday morning within an our of each other. Read on…
Brooklyn’s legendary Monk parrots have migrated to Park Slope.
A flock of about five bright green tropical parrots — an offshoot of the borough’s legendary wild parrot community in Midwood — has been spotted hanging out in a tree on the corner of 14th Street and Eighth Avenue.
Brett Cleaver, who lives on nearby 13th Street, has seen the bright green birds twice in a matter of four days.
“They were cute,†said Cleaver. “It seemed like there were two couples, and an odd man out. A couple of them were kissing. People were stopping and looking — it was certainly a spectacle.†Read on…
Temple Daily Telegram by Robert Stinson
Although residents around 31st Street can tell you a flock of parrots has had a nest on a power pole in the area for at least 10 years now, how they got there is a matter of speculation.
The predominantly green parrots, the population of which has varied from a reported one to 12, has been at work over the years enlarging what is now a sizable nest of sticks that looks like a big clump of flotsam with a hole burrowed in it.
Numerous bird–related Web sites list the monk parakeet as the only bird in the parrot family that builds stick nests. Often those nests are located on power poles and have multiple living chambers.
The Temple parrots’ nest is nestled in a capacitor bank at the top of a pole in front of the CEFCO Canyon Creek Convenience Store and Car Wash, located at 3805 S. 31st St. Read on…
New Haven Independent by Allan Appel
Noisy new immigrants have been flocking to the Hill, putting up homes in woodsy — uh, very woodsy — one-room condos high above historic City Point.
Who wouldn’t want a rustic room, surrounded by spectacular greenery and panoramic harbor views during all the seasons of the year? Utilities included, of course. Lots of utilities. Although the property is not particularly convenient to mass transit, that shouldn’t be an obstacle, for you probably should have wings if you’re considering joining this ornithological condo association, for all the members are myiopsitta monachus, or monk parakeets. Read on…
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Scarlet macaws threatened by illegal poachers and land invaders who slash and burn their jungle habitat in Guatemala now have scientists watching out for them from space.
Researchers recently fit two of the red, yellow and blue-plumed parrots with satellite collars that send to computers information about their movements through the thick canopy of trees in northern Guatemala and southern Mexico. Read on…
